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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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AI at work: Southern Nuclear’s adoption of Copilot agents drives fleet forward
Southern Nuclear is leading the charge in artificial intelligence integration, with employee-developed applications driving efficiencies in maintenance, operations, safety, and performance.
The tools span all roles within the company, with thousands of documented uses throughout the fleet, including improved maintenance efficiency, risk awareness in maintenance activities, and better-informed decision-making. The data-intensive process of preparing for and executing maintenance operations is streamlined by leveraging AI to put the right information at the fingertips for maintenance leaders, planners, schedulers, engineers, and technicians.
Mianzhen Mo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Umang Agarwal (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Zhijiang Chen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Mungo Frost (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Edna R. Toro (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Nicholas Hartley (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Fuhao Ji (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Benjamin Ofori-Okai (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Silvia Pandolfi (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Alexander Reid (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Eric Sung (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Peihao Sun (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xiaozhe Shen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Katie Wootten (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Ling Wang (SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab), Siegfried Glenzer (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Xijie Wang (University of Duisburg-Essen), Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten (University of Duisburg-Essen), Yongqiang Wang (LANL), Peter Hosemann (Univ. California, Berkeley), Weicheng Zhong (ORNL), Erki Metsanurk (Uppsala University), Artur Tamm (University of Tartu), Alfredo A. Correa (LLNL)
Transactions | Volume 132 | Number 1 | June 2025 | Pages 308-309
